The Church and Slavery attempts to reveal the evil of slavery through an understanding of the New-School Presbyterian church. Very little focus is put on interpretations of the Bible, unlike other books of this class.

Robert Davidson delivers this sermon on October 5, 1794, in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, before prestigious visitors - the sitting President and the Secretaries of the Treasury and of War - as the federal militias gather in the town to march westward...

John Price Durbin, a devout Methodist and college president, reflects on his recent tour of Europe. While making his observations, he comments on the moral state of the continent and the work of the Methodist Church there.

This book is an abolition work that examines slavery as intolerable under any circumstances. The author illustrates the characteristics of a true reformer as not being arrogant, malignant, belligerent, impracticable, and destructive. These are his...

Hopkins, a Northern supporter of slavery, defends slavery as the will, and law, of God. He does not explain how slavery might be abolished without breaking the law of God, but he does acknowledge the possibility of Abolition.

Charles Collins records his thoughts and activities from his time at Emory and Henry College in Emory, VA, to his years as president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and then as the head of State Female College in Memphis, TN.